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Barnastick is a menhir in Ballyogan, Ireland. In open records it appears as Wikidata item Q141726383, mapped at 52.5204° N, 6.9458° W.
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Where it sits in time
The site's dated range, placed against world reference points.
The scale is logarithmic: each step to the left is about ten times older than the last.
The full article
About Barnastick
This kind of monument hereSources for this section
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Ireland is rich in menhirs, standing stones that are usually located in farmers' fields and heavily worn by the weather and by livestock. Menhirs are found across Europe, Africa and Asia, with a concentration in Western Europe, notably in Ireland, Great Britain and Brittany. Theories concerning their purpose remain speculative, with hypotheses including rituals, territorial markers and elements of an ideological system. Standing stones are usually difficult to date, because they were set up in many different periods of prehistory. Further down this page, About this kind of monument gives the whole of “Irish standing stones”.
DatingSources for this section
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Typological estimate, not a date for this site: monuments of this kind in this region are normally dated 2800 BCE to 1800 BCE. The range comes from what is known about menhir monuments in Ireland; nothing measured on this site itself is on record, so it may be younger or older than the range suggests.
The range rests on this regional background (source: the Wikipedia article “Menhir”): Standing stones are associated with the Beaker people of the European late Neolithic and early Bronze Age c. 2800-1800 BC.
Landscape and neighbours
No other catalogued site lies within 10 km of it. The nearest is Ballygraney Portal Tomb, 11.1 km to the north. It is one of 1 menhir records among the 1 sites catalogued in Ballyogan, Ireland.
The nearest neighbours in the catalogue are Ballygraney Portal Tomb (11.1 km north, portal tomb); Ballynasilloge (11.2 km north, portal tomb); Menhir von Ballyellin (12.2 km north, menhir); Portal Tomb von Knockroe (13.4 km north-east, portal tomb). The catalogue is assembled from open records and is not complete, so unrecorded monuments may lie closer.
Records and protectionSources for this section
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No heritage register entry is attached to this site in the records the Atlas uses; that does not show whether national law covers it. The open records for it are Wikidata (Q141726383), where corrections and further identifiers can be added. Many such sites stand on private land; check local access rules and respect the monument and its surroundings.
How this page was madeSources for this section
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Nothing on this page was written by an AI model: it is assembled by program from Wikidata (CC0) and the regional article “Irish standing stones”, written for the Atlas from the Wikipedia articles it cites (CC BY-SA 4.0), with distances and counts calculated from the catalogue coordinates.
Tradition and region
About this kind of monument
Irish standing stones
Ireland is rich in menhirs, standing stones that are usually located in farmers' fields and heavily worn by the weather and by livestock. Menhirs are found across Europe, Africa and Asia, with a concentration in Western Europe, notably in Ireland, Great Britain and Brittany. Theories concerning their purpose remain speculative, with hypotheses including rituals, territorial markers and elements of an ideological system. Standing stones are usually difficult to date, because they were set up in many different periods of prehistory.
One Irish stone is well dated by its art. The Turoe Stone, a 1.2-metre granite boulder in the village of Bullaun, County Galway, probably dates to about 100 BCE to 100 CE. The top half is covered with a continuous abstract curvilinear design in the La Tène Celtic style, similar to the Castlestrange Stone in County Roscommon. It is National Monument number 327. For centuries the stone was a curiosity at a lios, a "fairy fort", some 3 kilometres away, before it was moved to Turoe Farm; in 2025 it was moved temporarily for conservation. The "fairy fort" name is a folk tradition.
Ogham, the early medieval alphabet of Ireland, was cut on the edges of some standing stones. In Ireland it is traditional to carry a stone up from the bottom of a hill and add it to the cairn at the top.
The Atlas treats isolated Irish stones as undated unless there is excavation or art to show their age.
When visiting, look at the surface for carving.
Paraphrased from Wikipedia: Menhir, Wikipedia: Turoe Stone, Wikipedia: List of menhirs, Wikipedia: Ogham · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Photographs
3 photographs, each with its author and licence
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Evidence & Lore
What the sources actually support — and, kept apart, what has been claimed.
What the evidence supports
Dates
Est. 2800–1800 BCEHow this date was established: Type comparisonTypical range for menhirs in Ireland; this site has not been dated itself. Standing stones are associated with the Beaker people of the European late Neolithic and early Bronze Age c. 2800-1800 BC.Source for this date
Where it stands
Ireland
The pin marks the monument itself — its exact point.
- Coordinates
- 52°31′14″ N, 6°56′45″ WFor a GPS or map app: 52.52043, -6.94575
Access is as our sources describe it; we have not visited the site to check.
Nearby
The closest sites in the Atlas, by straight line.
Ballygraney Portal Tomb4000–3000 BCE
Ballynasilloge4000–3000 BCE- Menhir (standing stone)Menhir von Ballyellin2800–1800 BCE
- Portal tomb (portal dolmen)Portal Tomb von Knockroe4000–3000 BCE
portal tomb of Kilgraney4000–3000 BCE- MegalithRobinstown Great3300–2900 BCE
Coolasnaghta Stone Row2800–1800 BCE- MegalithDonore Megalithic Tomb3300–2900 BCE
Sources
Every record behind this page, with the link it came from.
2 sources behind this page
- 01Wikidata Q141726383wikidata.org
- 02Source for this dateen.wikipedia.org
Image files
- Barnastick 3.jpgA.-K. D.CC BY-SA 4.0
- Barnastick 1.jpgA.-K. D.CC BY-SA 4.0
- Barnastick 2.jpgA.-K. D.CC BY-SA 4.0
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Around this place
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Credit
Text, licence and sources
This page is assembled from open records (Wikidata, CC0; OpenStreetMap, ODbL) and a tradition article paraphrasing Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). No article exists for this site, and nothing here is written by a model.
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